OpenStreetMap Enhances User Privacy

Today, OpenStreetMap has enabled encryption (SSL) to all of the openstreetmap.org website, thereby enhancing the privacy of its users.

You can now browse the site at https://openstreetmap.org (note the ‘https’). This means your browsing activity is secure from snooping.

OpenStreetMap stands with the Open Rights Group and the Electronic Frontier Foundation in asserting greater Internet freedom, including the right to individual privacy. With this action providing the highest quality Free/Open Data Geographic resource to everyone.

Is anyone else able to see the map? I’m not. It puts up the frame, chugs awhile as though it’s populating the viewport with tiles, and then stops. I’ve tried http and https, re-scaled up and down, but just get the same non-response response. Google maps work as per usual, so it’s not a general problem.

Hi! this is a good news, but i had a problem accessing https://blogs.openstreetmap.org.
firefox say:blogs.openstreetmap.org uses an invalid security certificate. The certificate is not trusted because it is self-signed. The certificate is only valid for smcdonald.vm.bytemark.co.uk (Error code: sec_error_untrusted_issuer)
there is no problem with http://blogs.openstreetmap.org.

Because it takes time to set these thing up. See Grant’s comment above. Presumably HTTPS enthusiasts will be pleased that they’ve started with the main things first (the main OpenStreetMap.org site and map tiles)

Thank you very much for the encryption. Is there any way to redirect visitors (of the www web interface) to https? In my opinion the web interface should be encrypted by default. Due to the valid certificate this should not cause any trouble to normal users.